[kde-linux] 'End Session' problem

[david]

M K wrote:
>    > Anne Wilson wrote:
>  > > On Saturday 29 March 2008 20:59:28 david wrote:
>  > >> Anne Wilson wrote:
>  > >>> On Saturday 29 March 2008 10:19:41 M K wrote:
>  > >>>> I really don't like to roll up this discussion again, but it 
> seems like
>  > >>>> "splash=verbose" in grub.conf doesn't fix the logoff problem 
> completely.
>  > >>>> One of my colleagues told that despite of "verbose" he had this 
> problem
>  > >>>> at least one time (after logout, black screen with mouse pointer,
>  > >>>> forever) - and yesterday, I had it again, too.
>  > >>>>
>  > >>>> Seems like there is more than "splash=verbose" :-( Can there be 
> any more
>  > >>>> reasons? (At least, X can now be restarted with 'init 3; init 5' 
> and not
>  > >>>> a reboot).
>  > >>> Do you have any remote shares mounted? I thought that I was 
> getting the
>  > >>> problem again, but I found that there is a long (20-30 seconds?) 
> delay on
>  > >>> a black screen, then shutdown continues. I'm not certain, but I 
> believe
>  > >>> this relates to the shares I mount in fstab. I suspect that 
> shutdown is
>  > >>> waiting for something to either shut down or signal that it's no 
> longer
>  > >>> busy.
>  > >>>
>  > >>> Of course your case might be something completely different :-)
>  > >> FWIW, I encountered that same black blank screen when I logged out 
> last
>  > >> night. (I boot to a text login, login, then use startx to bring up 
> KDE.)
>  > >> I have "splash=verbose" set - it does make a difference, but isn't a
>  > >> complete cure. I do mount some network shares, but not in fstab - I
>  > >> mount them via SMB4K, and always manually unmount them before I 
> shutdown.
>  > >>
>  > >> I think it's related to video drivers, but that could be because I
>  > >> always see error messages from X (trying to use some feature of an 
> Intel
>  > >> chipset that doesn't exist on this laptop) after I close the 
> session and
>  > >> return to the command line.
>  > >
>  > > I've never seen such error messages. <sigh> It's most likely to be a
>  > > combination of factors, and that makes it very difficult to trace.
>  >
>  > Well, on my laptop, the KDM login screen comes up looking as if X
>  > thought the screen was 10 times larger than it actually easy ... so I
>  > disabled KDM. A text login screen works for me, and would probably freak
>  > out any Windows user who tried to start up my laptop. ;-) So there are
>  > probably a lot of factors around to make things difficult to trace.
> 
> Yeah, the factors are always the point... as Germans say, "the devil is 
> always in the detail" <sigh like Anne> ;).
> Well, there is indeed about a dozen of mounted NFS shares - all the user 
> accounts etc., from about 5 servers. Unfortunately, not to avoid... I 
> think, the problem is the NVIDIA driver, too - and a kinda genius who I 
> know has the same opinion. Are there maybe any other drivers I could try 
> out on a GeForce 7300, except of the proprietary from the NVIDIA page?

Cannot help you there. I don't have the problem on my box which is 
running an NVidia card. Only on the laptop's Intel graphics.

> Btw, thanks for not throwing with things at me :-)

No problem, we're still working on the one-way 
transporter-via-the-internet technology ... ;-)

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